Improvement in snow-shovel tips



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIGE.

EBER HUBBABD, 0F SENECA FALLS, NE YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN SNOW-SHOVEL TIPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 111,939, dated February21, 1871.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, EBEE HUBBARD, of Seneca Falls, county of Seneca andState of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement inSnow-Shovel Tips; and that the following is a full and exact descriptionthereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing and to thefigures and letters thereon.

The object of my invention is to make a simple, cheap, durable, andeasily-applied tip or edge to snow-shovels.

My invention consists of an iron casting, rendered malleable in theusual manner, and made complete in one single piece, constructed in sucha manner as to be attached to the wooden part of the shovel without theuse of rivets, screws, or nails, or the necessity of boring any part ofthe same.

The manner of constructing this snow-shovel tip or point is shown inFigure 1, being a perspective view, in which- A is the front or forwardedge of the tip. B B B show the langes or arms, more or less in number,as may be found desirable, which are made to clasp the front edge of thewooden port-ion of the shovel, a part on the upper and a part on theunder side of the saine. They are to be cast curved, as shown in thecut, for the sake of drawing easily from the molds, and, after beingmade malleable, can be straightened and brought to the desired positionby a single blow in a simple machine made for the purpose. These liangesare provided with points or teeth C C C, set at right an gles to the anges, which are designed to be driven into the wood of the shovel, all atone blow of a machine made for the purpose, to hold the tip on, thusobvia-ting the necessity for using screws, nails, or rivets.

The base of the tip may be made slightly concave, as shown at D, toadmit the wooden end of the shovel, and also to lighten the weight ofthe casting, but not so much as to weaken it beyond its necessarystrength.

Fig. 2 shows a sectional or end view, with the flanges or arms B B andthe points or spurs G C in position as cast; and Fig. 3 shows theirposition after being malleated, straightened, and ready to be applied tothe shovel. Fig. 4 shows the tip applied to the shovel.

Having thus described myinvention, I claim and desire to have secured byLetters Patent- A m alleable-iron snowshovel tip, made with flan ges orarms furnished with points or spurs designed to be driven into thewooden shovel, for the purpose of holding the ti p to the shovel in sucha manner as to obviate the necessity of using nails, screws, bolts, orrivets for that purpose, substantially in the manner as and for thepurposes set forth and described.

fitness my hand and seal this 29th day of December, 1870.

EBEE HUBBARD. [L S.|

Witnesses lt. BrcKFonD, WM. CLARK.

